駐中大使︰美應防解放軍恫嚇台

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魏國金, 駐中大使︰美應防解放軍恫嚇台. Liberty Times, Dec. 6, 2010.
http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2010/new/dec/6/today-fo2.htm

My comment:
(a) The above report is based on a cable (see below), as well as

Ewen MacAskill, WikiLeaks cables: 'Aggressive' China losing friends around the worldBritain, India and Japan complain of Beijing's diplomatic 'muscle-flexing', while Africans talk of coercion in aid-for-resources deals. Guardian, Dec. 4, 2010.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/04/wikileaks-embassy-cables-diplomacy-china

* The Guardian report does not mention Taiwan.

(b) Taiwan was mentioned in paragraphs 27 and 30 in the cable.
(c) The Cable:

Clark T. Randt, Looking at the next 30 years of US-China relations. Jan. 6, 2009 (posted by Guardian on Dec. 4, 2010).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/185826

Quote:

"In 1979, Chinese urbanites on average made the equivalent of five dollars per month." Paragraph 2.

"China has been plagued over the millennia by unforeseen events that devastated formerly prosperous regimes. Mongol invasion, the Black Death, uncountable peasant uprisings, warlords, tax revolts, communist dictatorship, colonialism, famine, earthquakes and other plagues were largely unforeseen by the China watchers of the past." Paragraph 4.

"Many speculate that China has reached the limit to easy productivity gains by rationalizing the state-planned economy. The Economist Intelligence Unit[, the research arm of Economist magazine] expects China's annual growth to slow from around 10 percent in the last 30 years to 4.5 percent by 2020. After 2015 when the labor force peaks as a share of the population, labor costs will rise faster. This will increasingly make other countries like India and Vietnam more attractive for labor-intensive investment." Paragraph 15.

(c) Mr. Clark T. Randt was US ambassador to Beijing from July 23, 2010 to Janu. 20, 2009. So his term coincided with that of George W. Bush. And he wrote the table just days before his retirement.


------------------Separately
日本新防卫大纲基轴是警戒中朝. BBC Chinese, Dec. 5, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2010/12/101205_japan_defence.shtml


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